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Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 2000 07:26:19 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        chad@DCFinc.com
Cc:        andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews), jim@luna.cdrom.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail missing? 
Message-ID:  <200004291426.e3TEQv022436@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:21:49 PDT." <200004270421.VAA00981@freeway.dcfinc.com> 

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In message <200004270421.VAA00981@freeway.dcfinc.com>, "Chad R. Larson" 
writes:
> As I recall, Will Andrews wrote:
> > I'm sure that if you pony up the port, someone with the inclination
> > will add it to the ports tree.  You could go look up the archives to
> > see whether this sort of thing has been discussed before, and take
> > appropriate action.
> 
> I did check the archives, there was no thread that seemed to apply.
> 
> But it makes sense to me to have a port, for the same reason it made
> sense to have a port for bind.  What started this for me was a
> desire to pick up some of features in 8.10, and the base system is
> currently using 8.9.
> 
> It's true that grabbing the sources from Sendmail.org into
> /usr/local/src and building them is not tricky (especially given
> that Eric Allman is a CRSG luminary), but a port could automate
> that.

An approach the port (or other software) could use is fetch sendmail, 
bind, whatever, off the Net, as ports normally do, and extract them in 
the /usr/src/contrib directory.  I've done this before with cvs and 
ipfilter.  Just extract sendmail in /usr/src/contrib and your next make 
world would pick it up, assuming you've set up cvsup correctly.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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